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The registry is what keeps your computer running; it tells the computer what to do when certain events happen. However, as you use your computer, a lot of unwanted and unnecessary information is written into the registry, and this usually occurs because you've installed and uninstalled programs or updated versions of existing programs. This gradual accumulation of unneeded or incorrect information will, over time, slow the speed of your computer. A registry cleaner tries to get rid of this unwanted data and restore your PC to full speed. The problem is that the cleaning process is less than perfect. In particular, there is always a small risk that the registry cleaner may incorrectly remove data that is actually needed. In the worst case scenario, your PC may become unusable as a result. That's why it's absolutely essential that you backup your registry before using a registry cleaner. For most users the easiest way to do this is to create a system checkpoint. An even better way is to use a drive-imaging program to create a snapshot of Windows, which you can use for system recovery if needed. As an added layer of protection, that may actually be more effective than System Restore, consider using the excellent ERUNT utility. This ever-present risk of problems is why the "best" registry cleaner is the one that causes the fewest problems, rather than the one that finds the greatest number of registry errors. Thus it is evident, a registry cleaner is - if at all - a tool reserved for the experienced user. The inexperienced may be assured that since the introduction of Windows XP, registry cleaning is no longer a crucial issue for the stability, security and performance of your system. Don't mess around with it!
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if registry cleaning is useless, how about registry defrag/compactor? If it is usefull what freeware would you recommend? eusing registry defrag? free registry defrag? ntregopt?
If you Frequently Add/Remove software,
Registry Defragmentation/Compression improves performance.
*PageDefrag*
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897426.aspx
http://download.sysinternals.com/Files/PageDefrag.zip
*WinMend Registry Defrag*
http://www.winmend.com/registry-defrag/
*WinASO RegDefrag*
http://www.winaso.com/download.htm
*Quicksys RegDefrag*
http://www.regdefrag.com/
http://www.myquicksys.com/
The Windows registry is the most important (and sensitive) part of your PC. It's no surprise that the majority of articles extolling the virtues of registry cleaning and defrag all want to sell you a tool to do it with!
I've never witnessed any benefit from using such tools but I regularly see users with disabled systems because of them.Even if you could prove a "faster" PC what are you going to do with the 5 nano-seconds gained? I would say registry cleaners are a waste of time and I've never seen one big enough to fill a hard drive.
In addition to taking care with installs and removals the only other beneficial PC "care" items are a HD defrag occasionally and a damp cloth to keep the dust off.
Shouldn't this section be deleted as Registry cleaning has been confirmed as useless and not freeing much space at all?
If I may be so bold, I must contradict this supposed fact that registry cleaning is useless. I, personally, use the CCleaner program and, although it may not free up much space, my computer runs significantly faster. I do not know why this is but I certainly think registry cleaners are a worthy investment.
Yes, I agree with you on that. It doesn't free up much space, it does not improve computer performance. You gain nothing from them, all you do is risk screwing up your computer! So I don't use them. Just my personal opinion. I never argue about which is good, which is bad, which is the best. If someone forces a registry cleaner to us, I just ignore, I never risk screwing up my computer for gaining nothing.
See this- http://chris.pirillo.com/are-registry-cleaners-safe-to-use/
Registry cleaning can fragment the registry and can result in slower computer performance! Good job I use NT Registry Optimizer for defragging the registry and ERUNT for backing it up:
http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/
Take for example Wise Registry Cleaner, it can screw up computer and even if it didn't the computer wouldn't be any faster or any different, so you do risk screwing up your computer for no gains. So, I myself just stick to the good old trusty CCleaner, (backup with ERUNT first, I know its the known to be very safe CCleaner but you never know, a new update and a more "deeper" less safe registry cleaner!) and then defragment the registry with NT Registry Optimizer.
'Wise Registry Cleaner' FanBoy,
*Deep* Registry Scanning & Cleaning
should be done -ONLY- by people who are Registry Experts!
There is -NO- Safety when Going -Deep inside- the Registry!
Sooner or Later, you will Wreck your System.
A Freeware, like Wise Registry Cleaner canNot
go Deep inside the Registry and Fix things Properly!
Registry Experts are laughing when seeing products like
your precious 'FREE Wise Registry Cleaner'.
What Marketing advertises is Not Reality.
Wake Up!
He is awake...
Just came, here, to PUSH (Promote) that Lousy Registry Cleaner!
Every once and while, he comes, here,
trying to convince us what a great software
Wise Registry Cleaner is.
Well, sorry...we won't believe you this time
like we did Not believe you when
you tried to promote Wise Registry Cleaner in the past!
Both Wise Cleaner products (Registry and Disk)
are Nothing But a nice GUI!
Totally ineffective; some times, even Dangerous!
Please look at Wise Registry Cleaner again. Positive reviews now?
http://download.cnet.com/Wise-Registry-Cleaner/3000-2086_4-11030472.html
To the "Wise" FanBoyz who ask for
looking -Wise Registry Cleaner- AGAIN:
That's one of the
WORST Registry Cleaners ever made; a Complete Joke!
No need to look at it 'again'!
How it is the worst registry cleaner ever made? You posted about it being "the worst" a few times but never say why! Most user reviews on CNET give it a 4 or 5 stars. Obviously you may run into problems if you delete the "not entirely safe" to delete entries, thats why the "safe to delete" are only deleted by default and this DOES NOT cause problems and does a good job of cleaning the registry at the same time. This is good, not bad.
I tried other tools like advanced system care and tune up utilities for free but they cost for deep scanning. This one deep scans and fixes unwanted registry entries without causing problems (delete safe items only)... just like you to tell me why it is bad, then I'll stop! You think it's bad, I think it's good, we are just expressing our opinions! That's all! I felt the need to reply back because you did not explain what is so bad about it!
"Most user reviews on CNET give it a 4 or 5 stars"
Yeah...Now, we are all convinced!
Only a NAIVE reader would believe such Review$...
Many users have Screwed their PCs
after using the Wise Registry Cleaner.
I guess, you don't expect from me to paste here Log files or
other Registry-related Info from WRECKED PCs by the
the Wise Registry Cleaner.
CCleaner,
Eusing Registry Cleaner,
PowerTools Lite,
Auslogics Registry Cleaner,
and
Glary Utilities Free
are all much -Safer- than the Wise Registry Cleaner!!!
I support -NO- particular Software
and I don't get paid to promote any Software!
You wrote about Wise Registry Cleaner before.
Now, you come to Flash a CNET Review stating that
it is a "5-star" software.
Are you sure that you have NOT any Official/Unofficial relationship
with 'wisecleaner.com'?
If you are just a perfectly satisfied Wise Registry Cleaner user,
you can use it as much as you want.
Allow some of us to stay away from Wise Registry Cleaner!
Without meaning to be controversial, we don't trust anyones reviews but ours. We are totally independent. Is Cnet?
CNET? Independent?
Yeah, in my a** Independent...
I would get Erunt and make a folder and back up the entire registry before any registry clean. Also, make a system restore point. Are they needed? I have been told by at least one engineer friend that they were not. But, I use the Tweaknow for free, it gives you things you can delete and things you cannot. That said I rarely use it.
As to the argument for them. I deleted a program and kept getting errors and when I went to the event viewer it said this program tried to access. I went into the registry and deleted it and never got the error again.
To use and to do a registry backup with ERUNT is always a good ideia.
I don't use system restore; I use ERUNT ever before/after (un)install app., to do something with registry, etc. I did a bat file with quick Launch shortcut to automatize ERUNT backup.
I use Eusing Registry Cleaner and MV RegClean. Both are trusty.
In relation to the review of EasyCleaner, re the comment on lack of a backup feature. Does this mean the Undo feature will not perform this function?
I use Vit Registry Fix as the registry cleaner.
I use JK Defrag GUI as for the defrag and it also includes a registry defragmenter (which does not require a reboot...) and page defrag.
Its a great combo and it covers everything.
For Registry first i use a cleaner like:Argente or Auslogics or Comodo System Cleaner .Next i use for compact and Defragment registry combination betwhen:RegCompact Pro and Pagedfrg.Both need reboot and with one reboot you make work for 2 programs or you can use:compact and defragmenter when you finish work at computer and stop computer.
Mark Russinovich (Author of the "Bible", Windows Internals, co-founder of Winternals and Sysinternals, and since both companies were bought by Microsoft, now a senior Microsoft employee) was asked:
Quote:
Hi Mark, do you really think that Registry junk left by uninstalled programs could severely slow down the computer? I would like to 'hear' your opinion.
Mark Russinovich wrote:
No, even if the registry was massively bloated there would be little impact on the performance of anything other than exhaustive searches (ed. of the registry itself).
On Win2K Terminal Server systems, however, there is a limit on the total amount of Registry data that can be loaded and so large profile hives can limit the number of users that can be logged on simultaneously.
I haven't and never will implement a Registry cleaner since it's of little practical use on anything other than Win2K terminal servers and developing one that's both safe and effective requires a huge amount of application-specific knowledge.
In some cases a good registry cleaner can save your OS (fix a fatal error, blue screen, etc.) and remove a need of reinstalling it... just like in mine.
P.S. But, I remember that 2005 year, when I've saw a Registry Mechanic and decided to test it out... the result was totally different from what now-a-days registry cleaners are offering (now, they're made much more carefully).
P.P.S. I'm using Auslogics' FREE products (both - a registry cleaner and a disk defragmenter).
Pyotr K.
I still think he would agree that faulty unstallations can leave behind remnants that could possibly affect system performance.
If you thought you uninstalled software X,
but a remnant registry entry still causes an X-related file to load at startup,
then system performance may be affected.
I had this happen when I thought I uninstalled Kaspersky security suite.
A remnant registry entry caused a conflict with another program.
But I used Autoruns (one of Russinovich's programs) to fix it rather than a registry cleaner.
To anyone even considering using a registry cleaner, I suggest you read the following thread. It will emphasize the statement in the Intro on this page:
"Thus it is evident, a registry cleaner is - if at all - a tool reserved for the experienced user. The inexperienced may be assured that since the introduction of Windows XP, registry cleaning is no longer a crucial issue for the stability, security and performance of your system. Don't mess around with it!"
Thread link:
aumha.net/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=28099&st=0&sk=t&sd=a
Vit Registry Fix is really good because it comes with a registry defragmenter and other tools (Start-up manager and Uninstall manager) as well. It's a complete "junk cleaner" package.
It hasn't caused any problems on my computer, make sure you use the default settings in all the tools, especially in the disk cleanup- do not check to delete .log files because you won't be able to uninstall anything that uses the Wise Installation System, it will say "Cannot find INSTALL.log file" and refuse to uninstall. You can try Revo Uninstaller to uninstall it, if it doesn't work you will have to reinstall the software and then you'll be able to uninstall it.
Look at the reviews on this site. It's good! Most are very positive about the software.
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Tweak/Registry-Tweak/Vit-Registry-Fix.shtml
I tried Eusing Free Registry Cleaner but it slowed my pc.
Agree with the suggestion of Powertools Lite, the freeware version of JV16 Powertools. This has always been my favored reg cleaner and now it's free...can't beat it
http://www.macecraft.com/ptlite/
Every time run Powertools Lite, it gives me 100% PC Health and 100% Registry Health, then when I scan it only detects a couple of errors. I think it's ok but I find it never finds near as many errors as Argente Registry Cleaner or Vit Registry Fix (The two best). I think I'll just use these two and forget Powertools Lite, because Powertools Lite is proving that they are doing a great job!
PowerTools Lite,
Eusing Registry Cleaner,
and
Argente Registry Cleaner
are the most effective and Safest
apart from the Registry Cleaner of CCleaner.
EasyCleaner is Not as safe as many believe.
After Cleaning with it,
Windows asked for putting my Office 2007 CD
as EasyCleaner erased files it shouldn't have!
Have anyone try this:
http://free-registry-cleaner.unitconverterex.com/
Just found it. Thank you.
Anyone have experience w/ Little Registry Cleaner Little Registry Cleaner ? Recommended by TechRepublic's Jack Whalen, credit where credit is due. It looks very interesting and is more than just a reg cleaner ie. the uninstaller and start up manager. I am going to give it a go but consider myself a bit of a hack as opposed to hacker and would like to get some feedback from here as I have been a long time reader of TechSupportAlert, my favorite!
This comparison article is interesting (also mentioned in comments below): http://www.macecraft.com/registry_cleaner_comparison2/. But it was written by the guys who make JV16 Powertools, so of course it came in 1st place! One thing missing from the article is whether each cleaner has recovery/undo options. For example, Glary deleted some important things for me, but it was easy to undo. I'm not sure which others have this capability. The freeware version of JV16 Powertools is now available at macecroft: http://www.macecraft.com/. But that's not the version reviewed in the article.
Just ignore how they put their product in 1st place so they could some into buying it, at least we got some useful information from it, that Eusing Free Registry Cleaner is the best when you exclude their product(that was deliberitly put in 1st), Eusing is in 1st place out of all the products, shareware and freeware.
Eusing score: 0 errors found out of 1000 (test errors). So why use any cleaner ?
Yeah, i'm also interested in this new freeware, but lite version is the same as shareware minus bloat, eg, registry cleaning performance is exactly the same so testing would be identical. BTW, did you noticed that jv16 PowerTools 2008 cames in... 12th ?
Yeah, that's pretty funny. Unfortunately, the freeware jv16 crashes Windows 7. I got BSOD each time I tried.
A new tool form Power Tools,worth a try.-
http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/PowerTools-Lite/1241798284/1
I use:Argente-Registry Cleaner and Free Window Registry Repair and i don't have problems.Both you can to make Backup for restore point.
Macecraft has finally come around with a lite version (free!) of JV16 series of tools. The "final" version is available now! It far exceeds other registry cleaners. http://www.macecraft.com/news/182/
OOPS just noticed you posted the very thing I did,Duh.
Curiously, it was the over-aggressive behavior of JV16 that first led me to question the value of registry cleaners in general. When you say it "far exceeds others" you mean it's much much safer than others, right?
Yes, it creates a backup should you need to restore.
I use EasyCleaner since Years (still the older 1.7f Version) - an outstanding smart Tool !
... specially the Ignore & Find Option for the Junk Files on Disk. :)
salü
If you know the Windows Registry,you will also know that
Registry Cleaners ARE Snake Oil!!! The rest is for kids trying to convince each other:-"Registry Cleaner X is better than Registry Cleaner Y,because X finds more entries than Y."
-"Registry Cleaner A will boost your PC."
What is better? -Obsolete Registry entries with a size of a few Kilobytes (Kb)OR -a Corrupted/Damaged Registry after using Registry Cleaners?
Go to "m a c e c r a f t DOT c o m" and click the "Most Registry Cleaner products do more harm than good" on the news section. (I couldn't copy the address here because "My submission triggered the installed spam filter".)
Read this review before trying any registy cleaner! What most surprised me from the comparison is that Comodo Registry Cleaner produces false positives! Maybe Comodo software is in fact spyware!
Eusing is the best free registry cleaner (The review here is right), it scores 7 points, only behind their product!
Registry Mechanic, Glary Repair Pro also produce false positives which I was surprised about! Eusing is better than every shareware except their product- that's what the summary of results is suggesting. Finally an in-depth comparison from a reputable company!
You can post Copy-Paste addresses,just type in Code then pre-view and re-post,I think?
I am tired of these registery cleaner promoting that they are free,WRONG. They scan for free but the cleaner that you really need is not free. It is wrong to lurk people to download something when what you really need it for cost.
"And there is very little real scientific information available for consumers to distinguish the cold facts out of the marketing hype and buzz words."
This is a quote from said site. Unfortunately it is true, and it applies to their own product as well. The comparison performed does only examine, what the different products do and how. As a matter of fact, it never raises the question if registry cleaning is any good at all.
In a mannor of speaking it is like saying, "How well can you paint a door green?" without ever asking, what are the benefits of a green door.
So instead of adding any light to the confusion, they add to it by offering an absolutely worthless test.
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Well it wasnt (absolutely) wortless for me, I found out that Eusing was the best free registry cleaner, and is also said here on this site as on of the better free registry cleaners, so it must be good. I agree with you that you can't really trust without any information, but I wouldn't rely solely on it. Eusing is shown here and on the Macecraft site, so by combining it with the review her on this (great if I may add) site I found that Eusing Free Registry Cleaner would be the best.
well keep in mind that "macecraft" also has a freeware version of their new product, although it's still in beta:
http://majorgeeks.com/PowerTools_Lite_d6180.html
-Shane-